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HOMESTEAD, Fla. Superstar Canada Sale . -- Jimmie Johnson had
the commemorative helmet and a photographer chronicling his every move. He even
ran a symbolic 7 miles the night before his shot at a seventh championship.He
must have known something special was coming.Johnson was the dog of the
championship contenders in a winner-take-all season finale at Homestead-Miami
Speedway. He needed only to beat three other drivers to tie Richard Petty and
Dale Earnhardt as drivers with seven titles, but he was the worst of the final
four for all but one lap Sunday night.Johnson was practically gifted his seventh
title when Carl Edwards aggressive attempt to win the championship ended in a
wreck that opened the door. Johnson got the restart of his life in overtime,
took the lead on the last lap of the race, won for the first time in his career
at Homestead and grabbed that elusive seventh title.I had this crazy calmness
over myself all day long leading into this, Johnson said. Even with us running
fifth and the championship looking like its not going to be there, I just felt
something.Most of the race was spent talking about backflips, repeats or a
Penske sweep because Johnson just wasnt as good as contenders Edwards, reigning
series champion Kyle Busch or Joey Logano.Then all that conversation took a
backseat to a record-setting -- albeit improbable -- championship run. The win
was the 15th for Hendrick Motorsports and seventh for crew chief Chad Knaus, who
now trails only Dale Inmans record eight.Johnsons No. 48 Chevrolet was seized by
NASCAR shortly before the race for a last-minute trip through inspection,
setting Johnson up for a mind-boggling race in which he never seemed to be a
legitimate contender. He had to start last because of the inspection issue and
was the worst of the final four, and he had no shot until Edwards coughed away
the title.Petty welcomed Johnson to the VIP section of NASCARs most exclusive
club.They set a goal to get where they are, and circumstances and fate made it a
reality, Petty said. Jimmie is a great champion and this is really good for our
sport.He was also feted by Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr., who
represented his late father in Victory Lane.I told Jimmie I wish Dad was here to
shake his hand, Earnhardt said. Dad would think hes such a badass. Hes such a
great race car driver. How he won this thing tonight, I dont think a lot of
people know, he can will himself to get [his all] out of a car when it matters.
Theres a lot of circumstance that played into it, but he put himself in that
position.Edwards was in position to win until a caution with 10 laps remaining
set up a wild sequence that ruined his title hopes. Edwards tried to block
Logano on the restart, wound up wrecked, and it was Johnson who drove through
the carnage to take the championship lead.Johnson withstood two more restarts,
and dedicated the final two attempts at the win to the late Ricky Hendrick, who
was one of 10 friends and family members killed in a 2004 plane crash.My heart
was full because I was thinking of some loved ones like Ricky Hendrick and his
influence, he said. Something happened from above.Johnson drove the entire
10-race Chase with a tribute helmet to Earnhardt and Petty, the Hall of Fame
drivers hes been chasing since he won his sixth title in 2013. Immediately after
the race, he gifted the helmet to three-time champion Tony Stewart, who retired
at the end of the race.Drivers have been giving Stewart special helmets the past
month, but Johnson had earmarked this one for the driver forever known as
Smoke.I promised him Id give him a helmet; I wanted to wait and see if I could
give him this one, Johnson said. He doesnt really want it. He said if I want it
back, I can have it back, but I promised Id give him a helmet.The title was
there for the taking for Edwards until the fateful sequence that changed
history.He was leading when Dylan Lupton brought out a caution with 15 laps
remaining, and it forced Edwards to hold off the competition on a restart with
10 to go.Logano, so masterful on restarts for two years now, tried to dart
around Edwards on the bottom. Edwards refused to yield and tried to fend off the
move by blocking Logano low. Contact between the two sent Edwards hard into an
interior wall, then all the way across the track for a second hit. He had been
the most dominant driver of the Chase contenders but was left with a wrecked
car.He came down right in front of me, Logano said on his radio.Edwards stood on
the track and watched the replay of the accident, and appeared to mutter damn,
hands on hips, before he began a long walk to pit road. Once there, he stopped
at Loganos pit box before continuing a journey on foot through the infield to
make the mandatory stop at the care center.He acknowledged he was aggressive
protecting his position from Logano.I was racing for my life up to that point,
he said. I just pushed the issue as hard as I could because I figured that was
the race there. I had to push it -- I couldnt go to bed tonight and think that I
gave him that lane.The beneficiary of Edwards error, though, was Johnson, who
had darted through the wreck ahead of Busch and Logano. Knaus pumped his fists
in joy, all too aware that they were suddenly in the game.Thats what makes a
seven-time champion -- someone that fights and battles and digs and never gives
up, said four-time champion Jeff Gordon, the teammate who discovered Johnson for
Hendrick Motorsports. They keep themselves in position and allowed some of those
unfortunate instances to work in their favor. You can say luck, whatever you
want to say, but those guys battled. They battled hard.Logano wasnt giving up
his effort, though, and headed to pit road to take on new tires for a final
restart.This guy on a restart with five laps to go, Ill take him every day of
the week, crew chief Todd Gordon said.Logano restarted eighth but was a bull as
he pushed his way through traffic and into third place, behind Johnson, after a
caution forced another restart.This time, Johnson got the start of his life and
jumped into the lead. He didnt look back, only forward at his slice of NASCAR
history.They were nowhere all day, and just kind of ran around, I dont know,
probably, Id guess sixth, said Busch, who ended up sixth. Never really showed
their hand at all and didnt really show any speed, never really led in the laps
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Free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, fresh off winning the World Series with
Boston, reached agreement with the rival New York Yankees on a seven-year
contract worth about $153 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said
Tuesday night. American Brooks Koepka held off a final-round charge by Japans
Yuta Ikeda to win the Dunlop Phoenix tournament on the Japan Golf Tour on
Sunday.Koepka, 26, who played on the United States Ryder Cup team and has one
victory on the PGA Tour, held off Ikeda after taking a 5-stroke lead into the
final round. Ikeda birdied 10 of the first 15 holes to tie before Koepka birdied
the final two holes to win by one stroke.Koepka shot a final-round 65 to Ikedas
61 to win his seventh professional event, including a European Tour title and
four on Europes Challenge Tour. Cheap Superstar Canada. Justin Thomas?of the
U.S. tied for fourth; Americans Smylie Kaufman and Harold Varner III tied for
11th.Other winners of the Dunlop Phoenix event have been?Johnny Miller, Seve
Ballesteros, Tom Watson, Craig Stadler, Ernie Els and Tiger Woods.Koepka
finished second recently at the Shriners Hospital for Children Open on the PGA
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